NancyLebovitz comments on Science: Do It Yourself - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 13 February 2011 09:09:08AM 7 points [-]

Or, to take historical cases, Franklin was far more rational than average, but Hitler was far less.

Nonsense. Hitler was far more rational than average - especially before he overused the meth for too long. I suggest your definition of 'rational' is broken.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 February 2011 02:07:21PM 5 points [-]

In re Hitler being far more rational than average, are you deducing this from the facts that Hitler was far more efficacious than most people (got control of a country and had many of his policies adopted) or do you have specifics about how Hitler was thinking about what he was doing?